Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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